Analysis: Obama solved one economic crisis, but another haunts him

How the president saved the economy, but not the middle class If you worked a factory shift in Michigan in January 2009, when Barack Obama assumed the office of the presidency, you were wrestling with two manners of economic crisis. .....»»

The Republican-led House approved sweeping legislation Thursday to undo much of former President Barack Obama's landmark banking law created after the 2008 economic crisis that caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs and homes......»»

President Barack Obama took office in the middle of a financial crisis with Corporate America .....»»

Obama reflected on his years in office and said the US is a country that has come back from economic crisis, wars and national tragedies.....»»

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the U.S. stood 'shoulder to shoulder' with Greece, acknowledging the crisis-hit country had made progress on economic adjustment, but had challenges ahead. It has been the policy of my administration to do everything.....»»

Venezuela is facing down a seemingly insurmountable mix of political and economic problems. The country’s economy is expected to contract by nearly 10% in 2016, inflation is spiraling out of control, and the government has not proposed any solution to t.....»»

A Los Angeles ballot measure pitched as a way to provide good jobs and less expensive housing would instead worsen the city’s affordability crisis, according to an economic analysis released Thursday by the measure’s critics. The study targets Measure.....»»

A Los Angeles ballot measure pitched as a way to provide good jobs and less expensive housing would instead worsen the city’s affordability crisis, according to an economic analysis released Thursday by the measure’s critics. The study targets Mea.....»»

All doomsayers are wrong until they’re not. World authorities from President Barack Obama to International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde all warned the U.K. of economic disaster if it chose to leave the EU. But the first hard statistics comin.....»»

Societe General’s perma-bear Albert Edwards is a widely read bank analyst because he looks at the world with an apparent mathematical mind, searching for truth and not considering politically restrictive niceties when providing economic analysis. In tra.....»»

Big banks are no safer now than they were before the financial crisis, according to a new analysis by a Harvard duo that includes former White House economic advisor Larry Summers. Not only does the paper assert that the possibility of a too-big-to-fail s.....»»

Due to migration to new tax regime GST and economic crisis in Brazil.....»»

South Africa is suffering an economic crisis. Growth has slowed to 0.3%, its slowest since 2009, and unemployment is at a 14-year high of 27.7%. Manufacturing and agricultural job markets have shrunk.… The post Cape Town is.....»»

Hong Kong and mainland China are the most vulnerable economies at risk of a financial crisis over the next three years as over 40 out of 60 economic indicators are sending alarm signals, i.....»»

Qatar's foreign minister says it would be unfair to describe U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's shuttle diplomacy to find a solution for the Persian Gulf as a failure, insisting that the crisis "cannot be solved in a day.".....»»

China’s Financial Situation China’s debt has been growing at a furious pace. As the chart below shows, since the financial crisis, China has been taking on debt rapidly in order to maintain economic growth. Three Busi.....»»

It’ll have the force of all previous catastrophes combined. An imminent economic crisis the likes of which this generation has never experienced is coming. However, the conditions under which the next bubble will b.....»»

Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam gives his analysis on GBP/USD in light of today’s economic data which dealt a double blow to the pair. Has the pair topped at 1.30? Or did .....»»

America on Both Sides of Qatar Crisis The Arabs Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt promised to impose additional “political, economic and legal measuresâ€.....»»

A Goldman Sachs economist discussed the economic impact of the opioid crisis in a rare report for a Wall Street investment bank......»»